Information from Sallie's passport application - also travelled to Dresden to International Art Congress in 1912 - from, her Preface to Ps and Qs

Travel to Europe

01 Jun 1914 to 09 Sep 1914

England, France, Germany, Holland

Their passport applications in 1921 gave details of their previous European trip.
Sisters Sallie Belle(32)and Mary(51)travelled on the SS Minnetonka to New York from London on the 6 September 1914, just after the outbreak of WW1. The following website gives an exciting description of what was probably the Tannahill sisters' voyage back home to New York:http://www.atlantictransportline.us/content/32Minnetonka.htm
"In the very early days of World War One Captain E. G. Cannons thought that the Minnetonka was being chased by a German cruiser, and raced her at full speed through thick fog to the safety of New York harbor, with all lights out and her forghorn silent. Approaching Nantucket she had exchanged suspicious wireless messages with an unidentified ship and Cannons felt it necessary to make a run for safety. Passengers reported that as she accelerated away, 'we felt the ship begin to shake from forward to aft and the thumping of the engines could be heard all over the promenade deck.'"

Travel to Europe

Jun 1921 to Sep 1921

France, Italy, Switzerland

Plan to travel to Europe for 4 months for general culture and to visit relatives - given in passport application made that year.
Sallie Belle returned to New York aged 39 on SS Assyria from Glasgow, 13 Sep 1921. From passenger list.

SS MinnetonkaSallie Belle and Mary Harvey Tannahill sailed home from Europe just as the Great War broke out, passenger list dated 6 September 1914.

TSS AssyriaSallie returned to NY, 13 Sep 1921 from Glasgow aboard TSS Assyria (3). Built 1908. Was "Ypiranga" of the Hamburg America Line but seized by Allies as War Reparation. Purchased in 1921 from the Ministry of Shipping and renamed "Assyria". Sold in 1929 to Cia Colonial, Lisbon and renamed "Colonial".